Wats up Richie K, Some quick questions: 1. Is your project mission critical? 2. What is your budget range per month? 3. Can you make any estimates of the network bandwidth your project may require per month? 4. Does your system do heavy duty processing (disk reads & writes)? 5. Do you have special OS customizations at play? 6. In case you have a system lockout or for a strange reason you can't ssh into your box at midnight (think of a defective power supply or bad RAM or HDD crash). Would running to the Co-Location site be possible in a timely manner? Would you need out of bound access ? 7. Do you anticipate spikes in network traffic at a point X or better, do think your web traffic is bound to grow to surge point soon (after 6 months)? Load balancing could come in the mix. Any concerns here?
Based on your responses to the above, you will definitely know whether Co-Location or a VPS will work for you. Personally, i run 4 linode VPSs (2 x Linode 2048,Linode 4GB, Linode 20GB ) and am happy (https://manager.linode.com/signup/). But like someone mentioned, Roke Telecom, UTL, Computer Point and not so sure about Datanet (heard a rumour) offer good Co-Location services. Cheers, -- - Phillip. “Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe and the biran fguiers it out aynawy." _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
